Carson Hocevar

Hocevar finished 29th at Phoenix after Corey Heim slammed him on the turn 4 wall in retaliation for spinning him earlier in the race; he also finished fourth in the final points standings.

After NASCAR penalized Heim 25 driver points for intentionally wrecking him, Hocevar was credited with a third-place points finish.

On March 7, 2023, Spire Motorsports announced that they will expand their racing operations to the NASCAR Xfinity Series, with Hocevar running six races in their No. 77 car, making his debut in the series at Circuit of the Americas in the No. 07 for SS-Green Light Racing before suffering a brake failure leading to a 36th-place finish.

He was initially on the entry list for the race at Dover Motor Speedway, but was withdrawn due to the weather providing the risk of qualifying being canceled.

His debut with the team was thus scheduled for the next race at Darlington Raceway.

He would finish 6th at Darlington and 8th at Charlotte Motor Speedway but would DNF at Nashville Superspeedway.

On May 30, 2023, Hocevar was named the driver of the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Camaro ZL1 for the Enjoy Illinois 300 at Gateway Motorsports Park after Spire's full-time driver Corey LaJoie would fill in the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevy while HMS driver Chase Elliott served a one race suspension.

He finished in 36th place after suffering a brake rotor explosion going into turn 1 in the second stage on lap 91 while running in 16th place.

Hocevar drove the Legacy Motor Club No. 42 to a 17th place finish at Darlington.

In the Daytona 500, Hocevar would finish 40th after being involved in a wreck on lap 6.

Carson Scott Hocevar (born January 28, 2003) is an American professional stock car racing driver.

He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 77 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Spire Motorsports.

He is a former member of the Drivers Edge Development driver development system.

Hocevar began competing in quarter midgets at the age of 7, winning 79 feature races and 15 national championships.

He then scored a career-best 11th place finish at the Bristol night race.

On October 4, Hocevar was signed to drive the No. 42 for the final four races.

On October 10, 2023, Hocevar announced on NASCAR Race Hub that he will bypass the Xfinity Series to join Spire Motorsports in the Cup Series full-time for the 2024 season, driving the No. 77 car under a multi-year deal.

He started racing at Berlin Raceway in 2015 as a 12 year old and won the track's Outlaw Late Model championship.

Hocevar has also run in Midgets, Micro Sprints, and Dirt Super Late Models on a part-time basis in addition to his full-time rides since 2015.

As a kid, Hocevar, while racing Quarter Midgets, was around many notable drivers due to his dad Scott who was a crew member as well as a sponsor for various local teams, and through this Carson was mentored heavily by Bryan Clauson, who Scott Hocevar was a crew member for.

He won his first Super Late Model race at the track in 2016, but NASCAR stopped all drivers under 14 from competing at sanctioned tracks.

Hocevar returned in 2017 and won the track's Super Late Model championship.

Hocevar competed in 11 ARCA Menards Series races between 2018 and 2019, with 9 top ten finishes and 2 pole positions.

In 2019, he joined the Driver's Edge Development Program.

Hocevar made his NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series debut in the 2019 Eldora Dirt Derby driving the No. 3 Chevrolet Silverado for Jordan Anderson Racing.

He qualified for the main event by finishing third in the third qualifying race.

He returned to the series in November at the Lucas Oil 150, driving a No. 56 for JAR in a partnership with Hill Motorsports.

On December 20, 2019, Hocevar joined Niece Motorsports for a nine-race schedule in 2020.

On September 24, 2020, Hocevar and Niece announced a full-season schedule in 2021.

During the season, Hocevar would have a very successful rookie season nearly winning multiple races.

He finished second at Charlotte and fourth at Las Vegas.

He re-signed with Niece in 2022 and led the most laps of the Spring Vegas race until he was turned with 36 to go.

On June 4, 2022, Hocevar broke his right tibia at the ankle during the final lap of the Gateway race when his truck was t-boned by Tyler Hill.

He underwent surgery prior to the Sonoma race.

Hocevar took the pole position before wrecking in turn 10.

On lap 11, he was relieved by Daniel Suárez, who took the No. 42 to a sixth-place finish.

Hocevar started the 2023 season with a 12th-place finish at Daytona.

He scored his first career win at Texas in double-overtime after race leader Nick Sanchez made contact with Zane Smith on the final lap and Hocevar unintentionally spun Sanchez from behind.

Hocevar also scored wins at Nashville and Richmond.

He won at Homestead to make the Championship 4.